World: r3wp

REBOL.org just migrated from the world's slowest single server to 
a small load balanced cluster.
Sadly, we're not superfast, but its early days yet.


One cosmetic problem: we're showing the date as 6 hours out. Highly 
trained techies are working to resolve that. Other than that, it 
was a smooth move, mainly handled by the ISP.

just noticed that downloading scripts seems to add a .txt extension 
after the .r   so you get  script.r.txt

Thanks ... I'll add that to my list of migration quirks. We have 
several now :)

also, some scripts indexed on google do not have the same url now... 
no example, but just tought I'd point this out... its possible the 
url has changed slightly.

I just tried  a script download under Windows:

-- when I selected "save to disk" it was saved as a *.r file as I';d 
expect
-- when I selected "open with notepad" it got named *.r.txt"

Google changes -- do you mean the whol /cgiwrap/ stuff in the middle 
of a URL?

here is an error I got trying to go to the http-tools.r script...

Not Found


The requested URL /cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/view-script.r was not found 
on this server.


Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying 
to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache Server at www.rebol.org Port 80

Thanks -- I see that too......We need a tweak on the URL rewriting.

glad to help. :-)

Thanks -- looks like our  .htaccess is being ignored by the new version 
of Apache.

I suppose I could mess around trying stuff in .htconfig to work around 
it.

Instead, I've asked the ISP why .htaccess is not enabled. I'll ley 
you know when they respond.

I get an internal server error at www.rebol.org

Thanks, So did I -- I uploaded one changed cgi script as part of 
the sea trials for the new site. And suddenly it all went dark.
Back now.....Not sure what happened, yet.

Got it -- what I'd uploaded (using our time-tested uploader) somehow 
had the wrong sort of line endings, and Apache got very unhappy.

My immediate attempted repair (hand upload via FTP) also had the 
same issue.
I have no idea why the line endings are suddenly acceptable.


The ISP saved the day by restoring the cgi-bin from the previous 
night's backup.

Sunanda, what usually creates problems is the shebang line ending. 
If it's CRLF, the CR becomes part of the command line.

Thanks Gabriele. That's probably what happened.

The real mystery though is why our upload process gets it wrong with 
the new server.

Maxim -- 404s should be fixed now. Sorry again for the problem.

Gabriele -- the ISP explains it as some stray redirect for the duplicate 
folders we had during the migration. I am not sure I follow their 
explanation, but they say they've fixed it.

Is there a way to provide page numbers into the altme messages?  
It's only got newer and older to allow pagination.

Perhaps index by month??

Also, can we have a smarter parser for obfuscating email addresses: 

bugs	mysql://[root-:-localhost]/bugs1

Thanks Graham.

Paging for AltME archive.....We only put the basics in place. It 
is certainly improvable.

Meanwhile, you can make great leaps if you are happy to edit the 
end of the URL ....

... eg 16273 is the post number for group 453 of world R3WP. Change 
the 16273 to move quickly:
http://www.rebol.org/aga-display-posts.r?post=r3wp453x16273

The email obsfucation is based on Andrew's  code. Improvements are 
welcome!
http://www.rebol.org/view-script.r?script=uri.r


Meanwhile, we do not obsfucate if you are logged on. So log on for 
a better browsing experience.

Looking at that script, I suspect you can change the definition for 
user so that it excludes //

or not ..

well, I guess the obfuscation is fair enough since it's a user/password 
combination

Hi all. I've got an issue in REBOL2. I have a Win32 DLL (using library/load) 
that has an argument of char**. What does my make routine! need to 
look like to be able to handle this?

Hmm, I just realized library group was for the script library, not 
for library/load and DLL related questions. Oops.

No problem.....The flaw is really in AltME: we should be able to 
move posts around to the right group.

What's the appropriate group to ask my question do you think

Core?

BrianH suggests DLL.SO

Okay, I'll give it a shot there, thanks.

Is it possible to search the library for something like: "func [:"
I only need results, where the string "func [:" is included.

Sorry, no there is not -- not online anyway.

You could download all the scripts and do a search locally with a 
few lines of REBOL code 
http://localhost/cgi-bin/download-librarian.r
(the scripts will all be in the /scripts/ folder)

Thanks!

It doesn't seem, functions with get-word refinements are used very 
much.

Not refinements, get-word arguments.

They are very rare.

is the site built using only nested table elements?

Good news -- no absolutely positiioned DIVs, so it is a fairly fluid 
layout, will flow easily into most window size.


Bad news -- main frame of site is a table. Originally, it was nested 
DIVs but that caused some layout problems when displaying <pre> sections 
of code. Going to a table was a quick fix that has never been looked 
at again.

divs really cause sooooo much browser display issues.... tables usually 
are easier to manage.

ok , I'll give it a try for fun...  :-)

Max, given up already on the json library?? :)

I'm almost done doing my lean rebol to JSON converter...  and its 
been tested using an html and javascript  test, so its output is 
valid.

In that case, fnished so soon??

sunanda, you might want to add an "extension" section to rebol.org 
where we may contribute C/C++ code to rebol.org... what do you think?


for tutorials and small projects it might be very usefull as a tool 
to help out other people into understanding how to use the extension 
API.

It's possible....But may take a while.

For now, you could publish extension code on REBOL.org as an article 
(or series of articles).

Guys, is there any strategy of how to distinguish R2 vs R3 script 
base? I know that there are header/library fields available, but 
apart from that, I expect almost zero compatibility between R2 and 
R3 script base, and users might be confused, why scripts don't work 
for them? Would R2 vs R3 script-base split be a good idea?

The strategy is:

-- allow scripts to be tagged as (say) r3-ready,. r3-only, r2-only
-- allow searches to be limited to specific tags
-- perhaps highligh in searh results the R2/R3 status.
The first two steps are already in place.

Something new in the Library....If you own scripts, you can add images 
to them to make it all a bit more graphic.

Only example to date here:
    http://www.rebol.org/view-script.r?script=ascii-chart.r

Notes about how to add images to yoour scripts here:
    http://www.rebol.org/boiler.r?display=script-images

Thanks to Maxim for the original change request.

very nice touch